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CTJL 2021: FINALE, PART I

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

2021! I have become aware that it is now 2023, yes, thank you. I promise I am sufficiently ashamed of myself. But not a lot happens in my game these days, which means big things need to be celebrated bigger than usual... which, if you’re me, means you end up confusing your ambitions with your capabilities and end up squashed and discouraged beneath the weight of all the visions you couldn’t achieve, with several painful WIPs relegated to your blackest, backest project folders to show for it.

Fun!

Story-related stuff below the cut, if you’re into that.

Despite missing the opening show in Rio de Janeiro, the little Lowmax team managed to end the 2021 season with two riders on the podium! (Nobody was as shocked as I was) Archie & Speakeasy were awarded champion of the 1.30m class and second place overall, while Agatha & Poquelin won the 1.50m class and were hot on their heels in third place overall. Considering they were pipped by Elizabeth Howell, the face of the tour and arguably, the current face of show jumping itself, being the first losers wasn’t too tough!       Archie (who was almost as tall as Liz while she stood atop the towering first place position, much to the amusement of the press) was ever the professional- and frankly, ever himself- graciously shaking Liz’ hand and offering sincere congratulations, as well as the promise of a celebratory drink at the gala later on. Anyone who can manage to perform so well so consistently is deserving of as much in his book, but the fact Elizabeth (because you know he’s calling her ‘Elizabeth’ and not ‘Liz’) is managing it while still so young is rather impressive. As for Agatha...

There would be those who’d say she was jealous. But there are those who say a lot of things about Agatha. (”She looks like a hair yanker.”) (”Speaking to her is like a near-death experience.”) (”She’d eat him alive.”) (”I’d never want to meet her.”) (”Officially terrifying.”) (”Her favourite food is probably crisp charcoal.”) (...) In truth, yes: being beaten by someone younger than her wasn’t exactly thrilling, and being beaten by Archie again was adding insult to injury (even if it had privately been expected) But Agatha’s comparatively subdued demeanour had little to do with envy, and everything to do with her self-expectations. Self-expectations, and a hollow sort of feeling where there should have been excitement.

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Big thanks to @calveroterranorasj for collaborating with me, and for allowing me to participate in the CTJL in the first place! I genuinely had a blast travelling the globe with the team and rubbing shoulders with the different characters out in the world. 

Fun bit of trivia for you: all those things ‘said’ about Agatha are all real things said at some point by my so-called friends. I’d be offended if I didn’t find them so amusing. The charcoal one in particular- courtesy of @kullabergs, who has a unique talent for insulting Agatha- has a permanent place in my head. Makes me smile every time. Ridiculous. I can’t even be mad about it.

Finally, I’m just going to say before anyone else asks: contrary to popular belief (the popular belief being that held by 3 out of the 4 people who’ve seen these photographs) Archie is not, in fact, proposing marriage to the 2021 CTJL Champion, Elizabeth Howell.

IT’S A GENTEEL HANDSHAKE, GUYS.

Honestly. 🙄

having just made it to KITT vs KARR i stand by my point that KARR has done nothing wrong ever in his life

The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself - meet the cast

467, 520

When every creature is a giant creature to you but you still want that treasure (Liz Danforth, Tunnels & Trolls fifth edition, Flying Buffalo, 1979)

babe who cares?

We'll take a look at how this will affect your afternoon commute in just a moment!

landfall: chapter 3

On a bright fateful morn, Jack Sparrow brings rumors of the Black Pearl and her crew of the damned to Port Royal. In theory, the ship should be no match for the dragon Tempest and his Captain Norrington — but the Pearl harbors dangerous shadows of her own. or: potc, but temeraire. multi-chapter wip, ~7k words

Tempest obligingly covers Norrington with a wing and ducks his head beneath so they might converse with some privacy.

“James,” he says softly, worriedly, “was Mr. Turner taken as Elizabeth was?”

Norrington thinks of the defiant look in Turner’s eye during their last argument. He hesitates, and says, “Turner was not coerced into action, if that is what you mean.”

“Then he is a pirate.”

“He is,” Norrington agrees cautiously.

The implication hangs in the silence between them. They are not far from the remains of pirates hanged at the entrance to the harbor, their corpses left to bleach in the sun as a warning to all miscreants who would enter these waters.

“Let us see what he has to say for himself before we condemn him to death,” Norrington says, when Tempest does not reply. “Elizabeth is our priority — I dare to assume we will stumble upon Turner in our endeavors.”

“As you say,” Tempest concedes with a glum sigh. “He is kind to me, is all. I did not think he could be a pirate.”

“I know, dear heart.”

He pats Tempest’s nose, and Tempest nuzzles closer. He folds his wing back so they might watch the sails unfurl, catch the wind, and speed them away.

(read here on ao3!) (and check out some art of The Boys HERE)

FUN fact if beast!liz gets big enough eventually it becomes easiest to, instead of slowly shedding & reshaping individual features, just…..grow a new brain and human body and detach + use that instead. Like mitosis. Or that guy that got sewn inside a horse on Hannibal.

First a lettuce, then a turnip. Why are all of Liz Truss' enemies vegetables?

favourite species of deep sea gooby wooby?

OH MY GOODNESS THANK YOU

One of my favorite things about the deep is how much we don’t know. We only really get scraps of what’s down there.

Like giant squids! The first live-recording of one was when it was found stuck on a boat :/ And the rest of the specimens we have were found dead. But it makes it even cooler! Imagine seeing a thriVING giant squid! Those mfs are huge! Their eyes are as big as dinner plates! Their tentacles can reach 33 feet! Take a look at these pictures from the 2011 Discovery expedition:

😍🤩

And here are some deep sea claSSICS

Gulper Eel 🥰

Japanese Spider Crab !!

Vent Crabs! (These guys get their names from living so deep that they stay by hydrothermal vents)